RedPoint’s platform takes care of the ETL and hygiene work, while Splice Machine provides the transactional processing on that data. “So many people have used Hadoop as a dumping ground and a ...

Apache Hadoop, the open source software framework at the heart of big data, is a batch computing engine.It is not well-suited to the online, interactive data processing required for truly real ...

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets.

There is a lot of pressure on open source to deliver a viable platform for the enterprise. As we learned at the recently concluded Hadoop Summit (#hadoopsummit), Hortonworks believes that Hadoop + YAR ...

Infochimps, known for its data market, today announced a big data management tool called Infochimps Platform, a suite for managing Hadoop and other big data tools that can be hosted in the cloud or o ...

Doug Cutting, creator of the distributed computing platform Hadoop, on why the platform is in an almost unassailable position and what's in store for the platform. Hadoop: How it became big data's ...

DataTorrent made its primary product, DataTorrent RTS, generally available today. The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time ...

>See also: Hadoop in finance: big data in the pursuit of big bucks. Hadoop has some compelling advantages that modern data lake platforms exploit: • Schema on read, inexpensive Hadoop storage and ...

Along with lifting the lid on the Open Data Platform Hadoop initiative, cloud firm Pivotal is strengthening its ties with Hortonworks and open-sourcing core big-data technology.

A number of the largest big data vendors, including IBM, Hortonworks and Pivotal, have banded together to specify a unified base platform for the open source Hadoop data processing software.

Hortonworks will announce the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0, the company's commercial Big Data platform based on Apache Hadoop that's been in private beta for six months.